The first SOB land “Black Diamond” workout is scheduled for Wednesday 2/10/2016.  We will launch at the Vine Restaurant (home of Bagpipe, Swift, and The Brave) at 515 sharp. The workout will be 60 minutes in duration. It WILL be difficult.  It may not be the hardest workout you ever did, but you will feel smoked when its over.

The “Black Diamond” is a designation used (typically on ski slopes or mountain bike trails) to indicate that a “advanced” or “expert” level of experience is required to successfully navigate.  I certainly encourage PAX of ALL fitness levels to attend, but consider this a fair warning.  This is probably not the workout you want to bring that EH you’ve been working on for the last 6 months…unless you hate them…then by all means.

This workout is intend to appeal to F3 veterans who enjoy a little extra misery in their lives, but again-ALL ARE WELCOME

The following is a few basic operating principles of the BD workout:

-The Black Diamond workout WILL be difficult (if you’re still not clear on this, please re-read the section above)

-The Black Diamond will “travel”- Following completion of the Black Diamond workout, a PAX (typically a participant of workout) will be nominated/selected/volunteer/whatever to lead the next Black Diamond. The selected PAX will have approximately nine days to plan, schedule, promote, and execute, the next workout.  The new workout can be at a known AO, or a completely new location. The “on-deck” BD Q will select the time and location of the next BD workout. 

-Be creative.  Any jackass can say “500 burpees” to make a workout hard, but the PAX will not enjoy that workout, and their form will fall apart.  My advice is to keep the reps per set low, but increase the total number of sets, as well as decrease the amount of rest.  You will also want to be aware of the the order of the exercises in your workout.  Do not repeatedly hit the same muscle group/energy system back to back to back.  You will get much more work done overall if you move through the muscle groups/energy systems; thereby, allowing time for the inactive muscle groups/energy systems to recover. But I digress…

Tips/suggestions on planning a BD:

-Try to pick a centralized location, this will make it easier for PAX to get to and increase the numbers at your workout.

-Do not pick a ridiculously early time. People will laugh at how silly you are and not show up.  Try to keep it between 0500 – 530

-Please do not launch at an AO that has a normally scheduled workout that day.  This may “pull” PAX from that regularly scheduled workout which could case unnecessary butt-hurt for the regularly scheduled Q.

-Feel free to pick a “new location”, but please do your necessary recon to ensure a safe workout for everyone.

-Start promoting early.  Pick a location and time and tweet it to F3 Black Diamond Twitter as soon as you can.

Thats all I got for now-See you in the Gloom

-Pebbles